Angela Brent-Harris > Angela's Quotes

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Inner Life

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible”
― Thomas A. Kempis

“Wherever you go, there you are.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
― Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or do that prompted the action? Why did I react to it as I did? Does what happened make a major difference to me, or am I making something big out of a trifle?"
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.”
― Thomas a' Kempis

“As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.”
― Thomas à Kempis

“A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.”
― Thomas àKempis

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.”
― Thomas Kempis

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”
― Marian Anderson

“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”
― Marian Anderson

“Coffee isn't my cup of tea.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. ”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. ”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“No person who is enthusiastic about her work has anything to fear from life.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

“If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.”
― Samuel Goldwyn